So I have about a 1/3 of the first chapter and a few pages of the Introduction so far. A bloody good start if I do say so myself. Though it has meant neglecting my poor site and has meant a lack of posts.
Promise a longer post when I get properly back into the flow of things and the writing has been fitted into a more regular regime.
Well. The publisher and I. We have come to an agreement. I am going to write another book – this one on Nagios. Just started today. First 500 odd words pounded out on the plane down to Melbourne. I think I am going to be a little less stressed about this one.
P.S. Also another good review for the Das Book Mark I got sent to me today. Still can’t get my head around the fact people think it’s good. 
This just makes me laugh – albeit somewhat nervously. Firstly she named her child “Breeanna” (yes you read that right – three e’s) and secondly she is unaware of the significance of the flag she was flying. Lost for words some days.
This world ride is frightening me and I want to get off and get my money back.
Okay – so I am obviously an idiot because I am going to do the book thing again. My publisher and I are in discussions on another book. This one potentially on Nagios. I have submitted for a proposal for a Nagios book but I think there is scope to do something else – my editor seemed to indicate there were some ideas floating around in their editorial group.
But I’ve started researching on the assumption that the Nagios book will go ahead. Already mocked up a Table of Contents and now starting to flesh out the contents of the chapters in my head. Certainly feel a lot more confident about this one than the previous one.
Naughty Boojum did a bolt out the door last night and returned this morning with a cut paw pad. Off to the vet – again. We seem to be almost keeping those guys in business – three cats and a dog. So it’s anti-biotics and a twice-daily clean of the cut with this antiseptic solution. The tablets I can do – she swallows anything that potentially might be food without too much resistance. The cleaning? Well you try on your own to hold down a seriously pissed off cat with three working sets of claws and clean her paw at the same time. I have a whole new set of scars. Even wrapped up in a towel she’s pretty feisty – this towel wrapped, yowling bundle literally drags me across the room to get away from the cleaning. Well I am doing my best and it looks a little better. Last thing I need is having to deal with a cat absess.
The SMH has an interesting article on the traditional news media backing bloggers on First Amendment rights. The AP, and a number of Californian newspapers, obviously see the recent Apple attempt to stop leaks about its products by taking everyone involved to court and claiming the use of the material was in breach of trade secrets laws as a direct threat to their ability to report. Indeed as a direct threat to their First Amendment rights to publish and the related rights to protect the sources of their information. It’s a slippery slope and one Apple would want to be real sure they want to climb on. Organisations and individuals who take on the media like that usually only win if they happen to pay the salaries of the people they are going after.
Woot woot! Apparently a Slashdot review of Das Book is on the way – a very positive one. And Das Book is apparently selling really, really well. *wipes brow*
Who knew? Oh yes. That’s right. All of you lot. Well all of you ‘I told you so’ people come over here and stand in a neat line so I can buy you drinks.
So JP II has shuffled off the mortal coil. Finally. Took a damn long time dying too. I know, I know. I am supposed to be wailing and gnashing my teeth because he was the leader of the Catholic Church and a great humanitarian who defeated communism yadda yadda yadda. Well thankfully I am not Catholic so I don’t have to buy into all that religious bullshit and personally I don’t think he was much a humanitarian either.
The Catholic Church is an archaic and medieval organisation with backward values and a long history of fermenting and supporting evil and inducing misery and suffering. I can cite examples for hours: the Crusades, the Inquisition, the persecution of Jews, the slaughter of the Cathars, the decimation of the native South Americans, the failure to act against Hitler, the Vatican Bank, the failure to protect children from paedophile priests, the continued misery of woman across the world due to the ban on contraception and abortion including the dreadful consequences of these policies with regard to the spread of HIV/AIDS, the failure to recognise and ordain women, the persecution of homosexuals and the list goes on and on.
The moral courage of a few brave and just Catholics – for example the nuns and priests who work with the homeless and those in need, others who fight oppression and abuse in the Third World – and who often die at the hands of those they are trying to oppose – cannot and does not make up for the overall misery the Church has inflicted onto the world. Until a Catholic Pope acknowledges the moral bankruptcy of the organisation and preaches reform, forgiveness, hope and truth can they ever be truly called a humanitarian.
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